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Defender's Quest Deluxe launched, a free upgrade for Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten

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Defender's Quest Deluxe is a brand new upgraded version of the RPG/Tower Defence game Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten that brings lots of new goodies.

We Happy Few, an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city will hit Linux in Early Access

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This is awesome news. We Happy Few a fantastic looking action/adventure game is due to get a Linux version during Early Access.

Join me at 10AM UTC tomorrow the 15th of June as I battle with Feral Interactive live on Twitch again

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Another week, another battle. Tomorrow at 10AM UTC I will be battle against/with (depending on who is around) Matt from Feral Interactive in Company of Heroes 2.

Day of Infamy, the WWII mod for Insurgency is being turned into a full game

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Day of Infamy the popular WWII mod for Insurgency is being turned into a full source engine powered game by itself.

A developer from Dontnod Entertainment has created a UE4 hack to compile HLSL shaders on Linux

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For those of you using Unreal Engine 4 on Linux, you may be interested to know about the d3d4linux project. The d3d4linux project allows developers to compile HLSL shaders on Linux using the Microsoft DirectX compiler DLL.

Heroes of Loot 2, an arcade style dungeon crawler released with Linux support

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I'm going to be honest, I was not a fan of the original Heroes of Loot as I foundnd it too repetitive, bland and easy. Heroes of Loot 2 thankfully has improved pretty much everything.

Moonlighter, an Action RPG with shopkeeping elements is fully funded on Kickstarter and coming to Linux

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Always nice to see games that promise Linux support get fully funded. Moonlighter is an Action RPG with shopkeeping elements and it has been over-funded.

Dungeon Defenders developers Trendy need help updating the Linux version

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Dungeon Defenders has been out of date on Linux for a long time and the developers need a Linux developer to help get it updated.

Armory 3D, a new game engine for Blender that will be open source

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Armory 3D promises to make Blender become much more powerful for game developers and it certainly looks interesting.

MAV, a custom mech combat game will come to Linux, looks great

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I love vehicle combat games, especially when it's some form of mech unit. MAV looks interesting and it's coming to Linux.

Platformer On Rusty Trails released on Steam for Linux, some thoughts

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On Rusty Trails is the new game from the developers of Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers and About Love, Hate & the other ones, Black Pants Game Studio.

Dell set to introduce beefed up Steam Machines

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According to PCWorld who spoke with Chris Sutphen, the senior marketing manager at Alienware, Dell are pushing out two new Steam Machine models.

Ballistic Overkill adds Linux support, a pretty good looking online class-based FPS

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Ballistic Overkill, an online class-based FPS recently released Linux support, but it was another we totally missed. I picked up a copy and took a look.

Want to play Morrowind natively on Linux using OpenMW? Well it's on sale on GOG

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OpenMW is the open source game engine for Morrowind that is really quite amazing. If you've been wanting to try it out but you don't own Morrowind, now is a good time. GOG has it on sale for cheap.

Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR

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The HDK2 from Razer will use their OSVR ecosystem - an open source ecosystem supporting multiple types of hardware brands.

Stardew Valley for Linux should be ready very soon

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The developer of Stardew Valley has stated in a fresh news post that the Linux version should be ready very soon.

Croteam's Vulkan presentation slides from Reboot Develop conference are now online

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Croteam, who were the first game developer to put out a game with Vulkan (Talos Principle) have now put up their slides to their Vulkan talk.

An interview with Eagre Games about their new game, ZED

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I arranged an interview with Eagre to talk about ZED and their experiences with Linux and our community, including the decision to change support from a stretch goal to a base funding goal. ZED is an upcoming adventure puzzle game built with Unreal Engine 4 that’s currently on Kickstarter.

CorsixTH, the open source Theme Hospital engine has a major release

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CorsixTH 0.60 has been released which features user campaigns, an in-game map editor and more. Really pleased to see it progress as TH is an absolute classic.

Clockwork Empires developer reaffirms Linux support will come one day

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I was pretty sad to see that the new game from Gaslamp (developer of Dredmor) Clockwork Empires didn't have a Linux version, but the developer has said again it will.